WIPE AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wipe away mean? 

• WIPE AWAY (verb)
  The verb WIPE AWAY has 1 sense:

1. remove by wiping

  Familiarity information: WIPE AWAY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIPE AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove by wiping

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

wipe away; wipe off

Hypernyms (to "wipe away" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wipe away"):

deterge (wipe away; to wash off or out, cleanse; chiefly in medical use: to clear away foul matter from the body)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

I should like to cry a little because Oz is gone, if you will kindly wipe away my tears, so that I shall not rust.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I must dip my hand again and again in the basin of blood and water, and wipe away the trickling gore.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Believe me that if the time comes for you to change your mind towards me, one look from you will wipe away all this so sad hour, for I would do what a man can to save you from sorrow.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The scene-painter was gone, having spoilt only the floor of one room, ruined all the coachman's sponges, and made five of the under-servants idle and dissatisfied; and Sir Thomas was in hopes that another day or two would suffice to wipe away every outward memento of what had been, even to the destruction of every unbound copy of Lovers' Vows in the house, for he was burning all that met his eye.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Agatha listened with respect, her eyes sometimes filled with tears, which she endeavoured to wipe away unperceived; but I generally found that her countenance and tone were more cheerful after having listened to the exhortations of her father.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was at all times pleasant to listen while from his lips fell the words of the Bible: never did his fine voice sound at once so sweet and full—never did his manner become so impressive in its noble simplicity, as when he delivered the oracles of God: and to-night that voice took a more solemn tone—that manner a more thrilling meaning—as he sat in the midst of his household circle (the May moon shining in through the uncurtained window, and rendering almost unnecessary the light of the candle on the table): as he sat there, bending over the great old Bible, and described from its page the vision of the new heaven and the new earth—told how God would come to dwell with men, how He would wipe away all tears from their eyes, and promised that there should be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, nor any more pain, because the former things were passed away.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)